7 /10 1 Votes
Language English Pages 224 pp Originally published 1950 Publisher Gnome Press Country United States of America | 3.5/5 Goodreads Publication date 1950 OCLC 21462352 Cover artist Edd Cartier | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (hardback & paperback) Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Clifford D Simak books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cosmic Engineers is a science fiction novel by American author Clifford D. Simak. It was published in 1950 by Gnome Press in an edition of 6,000 copies, of which 1,000 were bound in paperback for an armed forces edition. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1939. Reviewer Groff Conklin found the 1950 text "has an old-fashioned and somewhat frenetic ring to it which, nevertheless, is rather pleasant." Damon Knight, however, panned the same edition as "a pot-boiler [which] should have been left interred" and noted that the 70th-century's inhabitants "talk, think, and act exactly like middle-class, middle-intellect 1930s Americans." P. Schuyler Miller reported the novel was "good fun, but nothing to weight you down with ideas."
Plot introduction
The novel concerns a group of earthmen and a girl, who is awakened from suspended animation, being contacted by aliens with whom they join to prevent the collision of one universe with another.